{"id":49670,"date":"2026-05-04T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49670"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:51:34","slug":"gamestop-announces-shocking-buyout-offer-for-ebay-priced-at-55-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49670","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Announces Shocking Buyout Offer For eBay, Priced At $55.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4691581-gamestop.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest chapter in video game retailer GameStop&#8217;s tumultuous story is unfolding, as the company has announced plans to make a deal to buy eBay for $55.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop said in a news release that it submitted a &#8220;non-binding proposal&#8221; to buy 100% of eBay at $125 per share in cash and stock, at 50% each. This would be about a 20% premium over where eBay&#8217;s stock was trading on Friday and a 46% premium to eBay&#8217;s closing price on February 4 this year. That was the day that GameStop started buying eBay stock. Today, it owns about 5% of eBay&#8217;s outstanding stock.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ryan Cohen told The Wall Street Journal, &#8220;There is nobody who is more qualified, based on my experience, to run the eBay business,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gamestop-announces-shocking-buyout-offer-for-ebay-priced-at-56-billion\/1100-6539757\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest chapter in video game retailer GameStop&#8217;s tumultuous story is unfolding, as the company has announced plans to make a deal to buy eBay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4456,1242,4554,1589,9994,1875,10254,2083],"class_list":["post-49670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-announces","tag-billion","tag-buyout","tag-ebay","tag-gamestop","tag-offer","tag-priced","tag-shocking","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}